Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Just thought I'd bring this Folder back up and see what people thought were their favorite books for 2013. You don't have to list them in order, and you can add to the list as you ponder the questions. Plus, we still have over a month left in 2013 to read more books, so hopefully the list will grow.

Oh boy...I think you added this thread just to see our TBRs grow even more! lol

A couple of my favorites were:
Me Before You
The Storyteller
Graceling - This is an older book and I actually was not going to read it at all until a friend recommended it. I was pleasantly surprised.

I also really enjoyed Joyland and The Passage. I'm sure there's a bunch more, but those come to mind right now.

1. Les Miserablès - The unabridged of course. On my top 5 of all time
2. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - another one on my top 5 of all time.
3. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
6. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
7. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
8. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
10. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Sarah - I'm reading The Rosie Project now and I'm hoping to read The Book Thief before the movie comes out in January. I have so many books that I wanted to read this year, that I think I'd love, but didn't have time to get to! Glad to see that you listed them as favorites this year. :)

I loved the whole series of Silo Wool OmnibusDustFirst Shift: LegacyThird Shift: PactSecond Shift: Order

I also discovered for myself Dresden Files series, which is definitely my favourite urban fanstasy this year.

Other favourite this year are:

Me Before You

Metro 2033

Before I Go To Sleep

11/22/63

Sarah, I also loved The Night Circus and The Book Thief!

My list so far this year:

Wonder, by R.J. Palacio
A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway #5), by Elly Griffiths
Do You Want To Know A Secret? (KEY News #1), by Mary Jane Clark
The Jefferson Key (Cotton Malone #7), by Steve Berry
AThe Ashford Affair, by Lauren Willig
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce #1), by Alan Bradley
Third Strike (Coyne/Jackson #3), by Philip R. Craig & William G. Tapply
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple #4), by Agatha Christie
The King's Deception (Cotton Malone #8), by Steve Berry
Naked in Death, (In Death #1), by J.D. Robb
The Innocent (Will Robie #1), by David Baldacci

Tilt-a-Whirl (John Ceepak #1), by Chris Grabenstein
William Shakespeare's Star Wars, by Ian Doescher
The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe, by Mary Simses
A Dog's Journey, by W. Bruce Cameron
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, by Chris Grabenstein
You Only Die Twice (Britt Montero #7), by Edna Buchanan
If You Can't Stand the Heat (Poppy Markham #1), by Robin Allen
The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate
The Final Cut (A Brit in the FBI #1), by Catherine Coulter & J.T. Ellison

My favorites so far this year:


The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Where'd You Go, Bernadetteby Maria Semple
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Stand by Stephen King
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

my favourites this year are:

1-23 of Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon
MacRieve by Kresley Cole
Shadow's Claim by Kresley Cole
The Mating by Nicky Charles
Eternity and a Day by Aline Hunter
Darkest Hunger by Aline Hunter
Lover At Last by J.R Ward
1-10 of Lords of the Underworld by Gena Showalter
Beauty Dates the Beast by Jessica Sims
1-10 of New Species series by Laurann Dohner

House of Leaves
Out of Nowhere
Murder List
The Keep
The Lost Years
Tail SpinUndone
ToysJoyland
Doctor Sleep

1. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
2. Tiger's Curse - Colleen Houck
3. Legend - Marie Lu
4. Cinder - Marissa Meyer
6. Scarlet - Marissa Meyer
7. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
8. Prodigy - Marie Lu
9. Tiger's Quest - Colleen Houck
10. Glimmerglass - Jenna Black

Some of my favorites were:

Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire
Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

Anima wrote: "Sarah, I also loved The Night Circus and The Book Thief!"

Anima - I really want to read Wool and 11/22/63 and I want to get to The Passage series as well - but I don't know when this will happen - I gotta focus on The Dark Tower series for now and be ready for our buddy reads next year.

a couple of books that stuck with me were


I usually find an author I like then devour everything they have written, this year I did that with Liane Moriarty and Jojo Moyes

I read almost all new authors this year, except for like four books out of my total.

Renee wrote: "a couple of books that stuck with me were


I usually find an author I like then devour everything they have written, t..."

I just added both of those books to my TBR. They both look great. I'm also looking into reading more of Jojo Moyes's books since reading Me Before You.

This might change but here is my favorites of 2013 so far:

Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder
Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Good Dream by Donna VanLiere
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Darkhouse by Karina Halle
The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron (This entire series!!)
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima (This whole series)
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Eulogy by D.T. Conklin
Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick

Okay, that was a little more than 10...

All of my loved ones:

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Here's a few (okay, a lot) of this year's favorites:


And these are only some of them...

Great list Jessica! Looks like my TBR. Lol

The Fault in Our Stars
Unwind
Angel
Angelfall
Divergent
Sunset Rising
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
Croak
The Revenge of Praying Mantis
The Gathering
The Way of Shadows
Endgame
The Program
The Archived
Hidden
Cinder
The Obsidian Mirror
The Rising

Favourite books of 2013:
(whole series)

The best books I read in 2013

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